Images of Sydney in Australia. Taken in October 2018. “Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania. “Indigenous Australians have inhabited the Sydney area for at least 30,000 years, and thousands of engravings remain throughout the region, making it one of the richest in Australia […]
Images of Auckland and Hobbiton Movie Set in Matamata, New Zealand. Taken in October 2018. “Auckland is a city in the North Island of New Zealand. It is the largest urban area in the country. The Māori-language name for Auckland is Tāmaki or Tāmaki-makau-rau, meaning ‘Tāmaki with a hundred lovers’, in reference to the desirability […]
Images of Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon in the United States. Taken in October 2018. “Las Vegas (Spanish for ‘The Meadows’) is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. It was settled in 1905 and officially incorporated […]
Images of Prague in the Czech Republic taken in September 2018. “Prague is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to […]
Images of Köln, Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces, Bonn and Düsseldorf in Germany. Taken in June 2018. (I lived in Köln from 2000 to 2003.) “Cologne (German: Köln) is the largest city of Germany’s most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Cologne was founded and established in Ubii territory in the 1st century AD as the […]
Images of Miami, the Everglades and the Keys in Florida, United States. Taken in April 2018. “Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States. It is nicknamed the ‘Capital of Latin America’ and is the largest city with a Cuban-American plurality. The Miami area was […]
Images of Rome and Ostia Antica, taken in March 2018. “Rome is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of the Tiber. The Vatican City is an independent country inside the city boundaries of Rome, the only existing example of a country within a city: for this […]
Images of Amsterdam, taken in December 2017. “Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Netherlands. Its status as the capital is mandated by the Constitution of the Netherlands, although it is not the seat of the government, which is The Hague. Amsterdam has a population of 851,373 within the city proper. “Its […]
Images of Los Angeles, taken in October 2017. “Los Angeles (Spanish for ‘The Angels’) is the cultural, financial, and commercial centre of Southern California. With a US Census-estimated 2016 population of 3,976,322, it is the second most populous city in the United States (after New York City) and the most populous city in the state […]
Images of Niagara Falls in Canada, taken in October 2017. “Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the international border between Canada and the United States; more specifically, between the province of Ontario and New York state. They form the southern end of the Niagara Gorge. “From largest to smallest, the […]